Principal Solutions Architect Jobs

Principal Solution Architect
UK

The median Principal Solution Architect salary in the UK is £87,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
28 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 844 933 1174
Rank change year-on-year +89 +241 -319
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Solutions Architect 61 40 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.038% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.042% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 4 29 28
10th Percentile £70,850 £88,750 £83,875
25th Percentile £74,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,750 £101,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.12% +1.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £121,250 £110,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £168,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,500 £105,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -27.14% +35.48% -3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,813 95,219 148,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,625 59,878 85,347
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Principal Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Principal Solutions Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Principal Solutions Architect in the UK

Principal Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Solutions Architect.

Salary trend for Principal Solutions Architect in the UK

Principal Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Solutions Architect in the UK

Principal Solutions Architect
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England +113 34 £80,500 -23.33% 8
UK excluding London -4 30 £76,500 -27.14% 8
London +139 16 £180,000 +80.00%
Work from Home +91 16 £95,000 -5.94% 4
South East +24 14 - - 2
Scotland - 12 - -
North of England +31 2 £76,500 - 4
South West -20 2 - - 2
North West +10 1 £80,500 - 4
North East - 1 £72,500 -

Principal Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Principal Solutions Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Principal Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 40 (65.57%) Finance
2 35 (57.38%) Mentoring
3 26 (42.62%) Roadmaps
4 25 (40.98%) AWS
5 24 (39.34%) Social Skills
6 23 (37.70%) Machine Learning
7 22 (36.07%) Artificial Intelligence
8 20 (32.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (26.23%) Agile
9 16 (26.23%) Oracle
10 15 (24.59%) Analytics
10 15 (24.59%) Cloud Native
11 14 (22.95%) Data Analytics
11 14 (22.95%) Business Strategy
12 13 (21.31%) Migration
12 13 (21.31%) Microservices
12 13 (21.31%) Line Management
13 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (19.67%) Law
13 12 (19.67%) Software Architecture
13 12 (19.67%) Wealth Management
13 12 (19.67%) Software Engineering
13 12 (19.67%) Marketing
13 12 (19.67%) LLM
13 12 (19.67%) Operational Stability
14 11 (18.03%) Architectural Design
15 10 (16.39%) Design Patterns
15 10 (16.39%) Architectural Patterns
15 10 (16.39%) Generative AI
15 10 (16.39%) Degree

Principal Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 25 (40.98%) AWS
2 8 (13.11%) Azure
3 5 (8.20%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (8.20%) AWS Step Functions
3 5 (8.20%) Serverless
4 4 (6.56%) OCI
5 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.28%) IaaS
5 2 (3.28%) PaaS
5 2 (3.28%) SaaS
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) DHCP
1 2 (3.28%) DNS
1 2 (3.28%) Firewall
1 2 (3.28%) HTTP
1 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.28%) Big Data
3 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.64%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
General
1 40 (65.57%) Finance
2 24 (39.34%) Social Skills
3 20 (32.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (19.67%) Law
4 12 (19.67%) Marketing
5 10 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (16.39%) Billing
6 5 (8.20%) Banking
7 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.28%) Police
7 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.64%) Automotive
8 1 (1.64%) Front Office
8 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.56%) HTML
2 2 (3.28%) OpenID
2 2 (3.28%) SAML
3 1 (1.64%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.56%) Cyberattack
3 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.64%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.64%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (57.38%) Mentoring
2 26 (42.62%) Roadmaps
3 23 (37.70%) Machine Learning
4 22 (36.07%) Artificial Intelligence
5 16 (26.23%) Agile
6 15 (24.59%) Analytics
7 14 (22.95%) Business Strategy
7 14 (22.95%) Data Analytics
8 13 (21.31%) Line Management
8 13 (21.31%) Microservices
8 13 (21.31%) Migration
9 12 (19.67%) LLM
9 12 (19.67%) Operational Stability
9 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (19.67%) Software Architecture
9 12 (19.67%) Software Engineering
9 12 (19.67%) Wealth Management
10 11 (18.03%) Architectural Design
11 10 (16.39%) Converged Infrastructure
11 10 (16.39%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (16.39%) Degree
2 7 (11.48%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.28%) CISSP
4 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Terraform
2 2 (3.28%) Ansible
3 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (26.23%) Oracle
2 10 (16.39%) Dell
2 10 (16.39%) MuleSoft
2 10 (16.39%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.28%) Veeam
4 2 (3.28%) VMware
5 1 (1.64%) Databricks
5 1 (1.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow